Meanings
comparative more nonaldermanic · superlative most nonaldermanic
- Not aldermanic; Not being or involving an alderman.
A mayor of a nonaldermanic city or village does not have a veto power; a mayor in an aldermanic structure has very restricted voting powers;
1984, Stephen Davis Porter, Illinois Appellate Reports, page 4803 more examples
As nonaldermanic members were, naturally, less informed concerning the problems with which the commission was concerned than were the aldermanic members, the chairman called a number of "seminar meetings" for the nonaldermanic members alone.
1954, Chicago (Ill.). Home Rule Commission, Chicago's Government, Its Structural Modernization and Home Rule Problems, page 8[…] evidence of nonaldermanic elections involving black candidates was admissible in § 2 vote dilution action as proof of local voting patterns, where district court had statistical data of only two city aldermanic elections.
1989, West's Federal Practice Digest 4th - Volume 77, page 496[…] there were still living in the City and Liberties fifteen nobleman and their ladies, one ambassador, and thirty-four nonaldermanic knights, some of them government contractors and officials like Sir Henry Spiller or Sir William Russell, some of them royal officials like Sir Robert Heath , others mere landed gentry like Sir Thomas Richardson.
2016, Barbara C. Malament, After the Reformation: Essays in Honor of J. H. Hexter, page 187
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